Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

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Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

Post by thebruh » Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:14 am

Wikipedians should know that music genres are categorized by the style of music and not by their audience (including pop music)

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Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

Post by ericbarbour » Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:58 pm

Examples?

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Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

Post by thebruh » Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:16 am

I may be late now but take Bjork for example, could you specify a genre for an artist?

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Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:05 pm

thebruh wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:16 am
I may be late now but take Bjork for example, could you specify a genre for an artist?
Bjork is a "special case". She's a nerd hero with a rabid following, so she has her own idiotic and useless Wikiproject. (I rarely see Wikiprojects with totally blank assessment tables; this means Wikiproject Bjork was a failed "project" thing and they realized it.)

Madonna is a bigger star with a longer career and a LOT more record sales. She also has a Wikiproject. The assessment lists 354 article-items, which is actually less than I remember from ten years ago. But it's still a useless monument to fanboy love.

Categorization is an accident on Wikipedia. Priority #1 is always fancruft and nerd obsessions.

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Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense

Post by thebruh » Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:56 pm

Agreed 100%. Classifying artists is a pointless thing to do

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